Posts Tagged "Evangelical"

Dynamism and Dilemmas in Evangelical Contributions to the Democratization of Korea Written By HONG, Young-Gi (Ph.D.) The Senior Pastor of the Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Korea is one of the few countries that are known to have consistently improved civil liberties and political democracy since making a transition to democracy. In Korean democratization following...

Evangelical Christians and Civil Society Written By HONG, Young-Gi (Ph.D.) The Senior Pastor of the Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. In the third wave of global democratization, no phenomenon has more vividly captured the imagination of democratic scholars, observers, and activists alike than “civil society” (Diamond, 1994: 4). Democratic transition itself...

Evangelical Christians and Political Society: Kim Young-sam, and Other Evangelical Politicians Written By HONG, Young-Gi (Ph.D.) The Senior Pastor of the Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Kim Young-sam was elected as the first civilian president by fair election, receiving 42 percent of the popular vote. Kim Dae-jung finished second with 33.8 percent, trailed by Chung Ju-young,...

Evangelical Christians and Electoral Behavior since 1987 Written By HONG, Young-Gi (Ph.D.) The Senior Pastor of the Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. What has been the electoral behavior of evangelical Christians in Korea? Politicians have to pay attention to that because a huge segment of the voters are evangelicals or sympathetic to the evangelical point of view...

Evangelical Christians and the 1987 Popular Uprising in Support of Democratic Transition Written By HONG, Young-Gi (Ph.D.) The Senior Pastor of the Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Democratization in the 1980s and 1990s represents an international phenomenon (Remmer, 1995). By a number of criteria, one of the most successful third wave democratic transitions was South...